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bedouinize

bedouinize verb: in the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.

Verb

bedouinize (third-person singular simple present bedouinizes, present participle bedouinizing, simple past and past participle bedouinized)

  1. (transitive) In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
  2. (transitive) To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.

Forms of bedouinize

third-person singular presentbedouinizes
present participlebedouinizing
past participlebedouinized
pastbedouinized

Origin of bedouinize

From bedouin + -ize.

Questions about bedouinize

What does bedouinize mean?
Bedouinize means in the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
What part of speech is bedouinize?
Bedouinize is a verb.
What is the past tense of bedouinize?
The past tense of bedouinize is bedouinized.

Words near bedouinize in the dictionary

  1. bedotted
  2. bedoubt
  3. bedouin
  4. bedouinism
  5. bedouinization
  6. bedouinize
  7. bedouinized
  8. bedouinizes
  9. bedouinizing
  10. bedouins
  11. Bedoulian

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